I really hope I don't get chewed-out for this; I've been reading through the memories for the past day or so and have been reading BME's wiki all morning but I am at the end of my rope at this point. Please help me out if you can. Last Saturday, I got my lip pierced for the fifth time. I had had sna...

Hey guys, Around the end of the November I got snakebites pierced at 16gauge they seemed fine until I realized they were pierced at different angles inside my mouth and that the placement was a little low for my liking. Both these things bothered me enough to take them out this morning. The thing is...

I've had an industrial piercing for about 4 months now, and recently (within the past month or two) I've noticed two small bumps on the inside of each piercing that bleed and pus a little bit. I think it's hypertrophic scarring, but I'm not entirely sure...I'm afraid it could be infected, too. My ea...

I pierced my nose about 2 months ago and it was doing fine until about a week or so ago when my 7 year old cousin thought it would be a good idea to pinch my nose snagging my nosestud and ripping it out. It was sore for a few days but then was fine until I noticed hypertrophic scarring around it abo...

A few months back, I posted about what I thought was hypertrophic scarring next to my eyebrow piercing - a pretty good sized red bump filled with blood and some pus. I stopped fucking around with it, went and talked to my piercer about it. I asked if it was possible rejection, she said no, but was a...

I took my nostril piercing out after over 2 heartbreaking months of battling The Bump. I would take care of it so well and things would start to look up, but something would ALWAYS happen (bumped it, snagged, ill fitting jewelry, a cold) and then it would look like shit all over again. So dishearten...

I've had difficulties in the past healing cartilage piercings and my nape (I scar easily). I'm into trying new things and now that I don't work in retail (WOO YEAH!), I'd like to try a facial piercing. I understand there's no crystal ball or way to be 100% sure, but do you guys think I may be able t...

I got my ears pierced -- third holes -- a few weeks ago, maybe a month.One of them has healed fine, but the other... didn't. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to fix it OR if this is a common problem:On the back, there's a lump-like thing. My boyfriend described it as a "bubble." It's not ...

Today was the day I finally snapped and got the bastard taken out. It was just under a year old and wouldn't co-operate despite my best efforts (soaks, compresses, aspirin paste, various oils, new barbell). So swollen. The girl who took it out came out with something like this: Oh, I've never seen a...

I got an indsutrial piercing in August of 2007, so that would make it around nine months old. It's been doing fairly well with the occasional soreness and just a teensy bit of hypertrophic scarring, from what I can tell. A few days ago, however, it became increasingly painful to sleep on or even tou...